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Requiem :

Did bro put all his stats in philosophy and economics

modcast :

Ol :

Marx when it comes to math and not infidelity, racism and bumming off of your rich friend

Felix :

they critique him for being bad at calculus because they have no argument against his dissection of capitalism

spade :

Engels paying him for NOTHING

vito :

you gotta be fair tho. Even Euler struggled with 0/0 problem in Differentiation

max :

yeah I don't really understand I don't study math

isaac :

mf derivatives weren't formulated at the time that he wrote that

Brenno :

He was discussing this because he didn’t have access to the newer discovery of limits. He was working on the basis of limits not existing. He wasn’t right but he wasn’t wrong in his math proofs

nuno :

People in the comments pretending Marx specifically wrote this or that Marx didn’t make the calculations in “Notes on Mathematics” before the concepts of Limits or Epsilon Delta were standardized.

zzz :

For anyone actually interested, Marx was well aware of the basic calculus that you know from school. His issue with calculus (as it existed in his time) was the general understanding of the infinitesimal, regarded as a “ghost”, where an object dy/dx ultimately was treated as 0/0 in the end without any justification. For Marx, infinitesimal calculus involved in 3 stages: mystical (Newton and Leibniz) where that transition from dy/dx to 0/0 was taken literally; rational (d’Alembert) where the limit was introduced, but still doesn’t answer the question as the limit still vanishes to 0 without justification; and pure algebra (Lagrange) avoiding the problem of infinitesimal entirely by redefining the derivative in terms of the power series. While Marx praised Lagrange for rejecting the infinitesimal as an actual entity, he still never actually answers why exactly there was a qualitative transformation from strict algebra (delta x/delta y) to a distinct symbol dy/dx. Anyway there is some context.

silly8034 :

the joke is 0/0 is an undefined term and also cannot be divided back (as (dy/dx) is not a fraction) as 0=0a

Oswald mosley 1st fan :

Marx stick to economics bro

jesu69 :

he understood calculus better than most people in this comment section

v14hnu :

“A contradiction”

OG ︎ ︎ ︎ ︎Starwalker #1 Fan⭐ :

dudes genuinely be cherry picking anything🥀

paddyboy :

Oo no way Carl marks snuck in that derivative reference 👀👀😳

Charlie :

Welcome to calculus brother

🇨🇮 :

He did not do this ?? It was from a japanese mathematician

meelanjakku :

This is a part of a derivation of the Hegelian infinity- context my friend- he doesn’t conclude that calculus is false just that it requires a certain concept of infinity

Starman :

What so a man can’t study calculus in his free time?